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A Harare Magistrate has sentenced Caroline Ziyanga to 30 years in prison for trafficking unsuspecting Zimbabweans to Oman under the guise of offering them high-paying jobs in Dubai.
SOUTH AFRICA – Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says bus drivers who allowed scores of minors to travel from Zimbabwe to South Africa unaccompanied and without consent forms from guardians should have been arrested.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have foiled a human trafficking ring that recruited minors who were housed at a lodge in Harare before being sent to be married off in China.
A 31-year old Marondera woman was arrested and appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court facing charges of violating the Trafficking in Persons Act after she recruited people and sold them to prospective buyers in Oman to work as house maids.
A report from the US State Department has accused top officials in government in South Africa of being involved in human trafficking networks. In its operations, the Hawks and other agencies have arrested foreign nationals from Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Lesotho and other countries who have been accused of trafficking.
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial member Pax Muringazuva appeared before a Harare Magistrate on Wednesday facing allegations of human trafficking and assisting eight Pakistanis enter the country illegally. According to the State, the accused harboured eight Pakistani nationals at his Mabelreign house in Harare with the intent to traffic them to South Africa.
A 34-year-old woman convicted of human trafficking caused a stir upon her release at Chikurubi female prison yesterday.
Detectives investigating the deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals whose bodies were found in a refrigerated lorry in southeast England on Friday said they had made another arrest.
The woman who snatched a four-year-old girl from her home in Bulawayo and took her to Tsholotsho wanted to hand over the child to a cross border transport operator (umalayitsha) in a human trafficking ring where she was to be paid R500.
A Nigerian agency fighting against people trafficking says its fact-finding team has found at least 20,000 girls stranded in Mali.